MK comment (25 July 2004):Recently, I tried my best to remember when and where I was
embroiled in a three team round-robin in the finals of either the Vanderbilt or
the Spingold. On the net, I found the two teams who were first and second in the
1960 Spingold, but no third place showing. However, finding out the identity of
the members of those two teams made me think that, maybe, I had learned the answer to my
big puzzlement.

Noticing that Bill Grieve, one of my old
buddies and a sometimes partner, had played on the 2nd place team in that event,
I emailed the ACBL, told them my problem, and asked if anyone could put me in
touch with Greevy.

Jean W. Patterson, the Customer Service
Manager at the ACBL, was kind enough to send me a clipping from the last daily
bulletin of that long ago event and, further clipped by me, here it is:

Only the winners got a photo op. Charlie got the big cup

The article refreshed my memory about many
other things during that tournament, all non-card table events. When I get the
news that a couple of other people have predeceased me, maybe I'll tell tales
about events that happened on the airplane to Los Angeles and at the Ambassador
Hotel, the Coconut grove, and the Brown Derby.
MK.